We live in a very visual world. How can we use images to activate our students’ curiosity and thinking?
Literacy
This post finishes exploring the six shifts we can take to maximize our literacy instruction by keeping the science of reading and balanced literacy in mind.
This post explores ways we can shift the balance to maximize our literacy instruction keeping the science of reading and balanced literacy in mind.
Book talks are a great way to get kids excited about a book. Let’s look at 2 more ways to pique kids’ curiosity!
Media Specialists and classroom teachers can make a powerful duo. The Media Specialists have great expertise that classroom teachers can utilize – building curated resources, fostering a love of reading, integrating technology into instruction, guiding quality research, and collaborating on lessons or units. If you don’t have a certified Media Specialist, find some great advice on how to partner with your local public library!
As a former Language Arts teacher and now STEM teacher, I am combining my skills to make my after school bookclub STEM-sational. With a little out of the book thinking, you can, too!
Sometimes students don’t like reading because they haven’t found the right book yet. Let’s change that!
The Young Hoosier Book Award list is compiled yearly by librarians and teachers. Learn how to use these books to build excitement for STEM learning as well as how to get your students involved in the voting process.
As discussed in last month’s column, it is our job, and our joy — it’s all about attitude you know — to help our students generate an interest in non-fiction texts; however, these texts often present more of a challenge for our students.